Monitoreo de calidad de agua y sedimentos en la zona minera Chinapintza

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper entitled "Monitoring the quality of water and sediment in the mining área Chinapintza" the polluting effect exists in water and sediment of the Quebrada Chinapintza and Rio Conguime was studied following the main economic activity the area is mining. For water quality and sediment proceeded to perform network monitoring, placing four sampling points along the Quebrada Chinapintza and four sampling along the Rio Conguime in three different sampling seasons. With the results obtained in the laboratory of the water samples, the characterization of Physical, Chemical and microbiological parameters was performed, allowing the determination of water quality by calculating the water quality index with three differentmethods: Method Provencher Lamontagne (ICG), Method of Oregon (OWQI) and wáter Quality Index of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME WQI) finally analyzing results of this calculation showed us that water is highly contaminated.